(BBC) Al-Shabab militants have been driven out of the group’s strongholds in Somalia The US defence department has confirmed that it has killed an al-Shabab leader, Adan Garar. The Pentagon says the militant was hit by a drone equipped with Hellfire missiles in southern Somalia last Friday. Garar was a suspect in the 2013 Westgate
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By TOM ODULA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya — A U.S. drone strike in Somalia on Thursday is believed to have killed a senior member of the al-Shabab extremist group who allegedly helped plan the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, officials said. Adan Garar and two others are suspected to have been killed after their
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Fidel Castro Odinga with his Eritrean wife and son Police launch investigation after 41-year-old Fidel Castro Odinga is found dead in his home near Nairobi. The son of Kenya’s main opposition leader Raila Odinga was found dead in his home near Nairobi, prompting a police investigation and minor unrest in the capital, police and media
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Kenya’s High Court has suspended some sections of the controversial new security law, which was enacted two weeks ago amid fierce opposition. The court blocked eight clauses until a legal challenge mounted by the opposition and rights groups is heard. MPs had exchanged blows while debating the law, which the opposition said would turn Kenya
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Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has signed into law a controversial security bill which saw MPs trade blows in parliament. It was passed on Thursday during a chaotic parliamentary session, with opposition MPs warning that Kenya was becoming a “police state”. The government has said it needs more powers to fight militant Islamists threatening Kenya’s security.
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By Gabe Joselow, VOA Kenya has a security problem. Fighters from the militant group al-Shabab, driven from their strongholds across Somalia, have claimed responsibility for gruesome attacks targeting non-Muslims in northeastern Kenya: hijacking a bus full of passengers in one recent incident and attacking quarry workers as they slept in their tents in another. Both
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By TOM ODULA, Associated Press NAIROBI- At least 36 quarry workers were killed early Tuesday in northern Kenya by suspected Islamic extremists from Somalia, said Kenyan police. The killings happened in Mandera County near the border with Somalia and the attackers escaped, said Kenyan police chief David Kimaiyo. The workers were ambushed at the quarry
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IBTimes Kenyan officials said Sunday more than 100 al-Shabaab militants have been killed and their camp in Somalia destroyed in the wake of the execution of 28 hijacked bus riders who were unable to recite a passage from the Quran. Deputy President William Ruto said the Islamist terrorists were pursued into Somalia following the deaths
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Associated Press By TOM ODULA NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels, Al-Shabab, claimed responsibility for the Saturday dawn attack on a bus in which 28 non-Muslims were singled out and killed. Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack through its radio station in Somalia saying it was in retaliation for raids by Kenyan security
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A four-day Bible study extravaganza marking the 20th anniversary of one pastor’s arrival in Kenya has attracted thousands this weekend. Kenya has become a bridgehead for Korean missions to Africa. By Ariel Zirulnick, The Christian Science Monitor Correspondent Kenyans join in a mass bible study held in Nairobi’s Nyayo Stadium on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014.
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